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Telephones from 1870-2015
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First Working Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first words into a telephone which were, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." In doing this Bell launched the world into the telephone era.
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Candlestick Telephone
The candlestick telephone was popular from the 1890's to the 1930's and was separated into two pieces, the actual candlestick part which you talked into, and the receiver which was put in the ear to hear what the other person was saying. This died when manufacturers put both of these pieces together.
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Rotary Phone
This was the phone that succeeded the candlestick phone and had the receiver and the mouthpiece all in a single piece. To call someone you would spin a dial to get the number you wanted and you would call that person.
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Push-Button Telephone
AT&T first introduced this phone in 1963 with a keypad which you would push keys on the keypad which would send frequencies that would call the person that you wanted to call. After this was created people could make free long-distance calls .
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Portable Phones
The telephone equivalent of the TV remote, the portable phone was a phone that you could carry anywhere within the house and you no longer were tied to a certain position in a single area of the house. http://bgr.com/2013/12/13/telephone-timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-phone/ -
Motorola DynaTac
The Motorola DynaTac was the first commercially available mobile phone that could go anywhere that you could go. Weighing in at 1.75 pounds and costing $4,000 this was the first phone that anyone could buy and bring anywhere.
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Motorola StarTac
The StarTac was the first successful flip-phone and is considered the first successful consumer cell phone because it sold 60 million copies. Weighing in at 3.1 ounces and with a new and innovative clamshell design, the StarTAc was a milestone towards smaller cell-phones.
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BlackBerry Phones
The BlackBerry was the leading phone manufacturer in the early 2000's. With advanced email capabilities, BlackBerry Messenger, and a physical keyboard, BlackBerry was the ultimate business phone. When the iPhones and Androids came out BlackBerry faded away.
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Motorola RAZR
Motorola finally created the peak of what flip-phones would become and it sold 130 million copies of the RAZR. This phone was 0.5 inches thin and was the perfect flip-phone that was made. This phone died once Apple and Android created the new touch-screen phones.
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iPhone
With its new touch-screen, intelligent sensors, and sleek design, the iPhone has been an incredible success. The iPhone has consistently improved with constant updates to hardware and software and now runs on OS X, Apple's desktop operating system.
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Android
Android is a company bought by Google and is one of the phones that has adapted well to the competition it gets and is now Apple's greatest rival.
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FuturePhone?
Maybe sometime in the future phones will be obsolete, but if not there will surely be a new version. Maybe the new phone will be .1 ounce and have 300 GB of memory and maybe it will be faster than anything we know of today. Possibly, phones will be able to do new activities like carry memory from any other device in existence just through a link. The future brings many possibilities and I am unsure of what will come next but maybe some of my predictions will come true
